Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7198
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Matthew MacCaull works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Matthew MacCaull appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matthew. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Austin Andrews, Elisabeth Röhm, Martin Wood and others, Matthew MacCaull helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020) as Parker Stearns · Midway (2019) as Staff Officer (Nimitz) · Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty (2019) as Jonas McClellan
Career snapshot
Ranked #7198 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Most frequent director
Allan Harmon
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Allan Harmon
Most common genre
TV Movie
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My Wife's Secret Life, Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty, Dragged Across Concrete — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. My Wife's Secret Life, Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty, Dragged Across Concrete.
Most productive era
2010s
8 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.11 film | 6.92 films |
| Action | 6.72 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.72 films | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.51 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | 6.92 films |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film |
| Horror | — | 5.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015Tomorrowland
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dave Clark.
Career peak
2019Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2020Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Ollie.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
14 of 14 films
as Jonas McClellan
Directed by Michael Robison
as Jonas McClellan
Directed by Allan Harmon
as Parker Stearns
Directed by Martin Wood
as Steven Pladl
Directed by Elisabeth Röhm
as Staff Officer (Nimitz)
Directed by Roland Emmerich
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Jonas McClellan
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty (2019)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jonas McClellan gives Matthew MacCaull a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jonas McClellan
Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder (2019)
Performance score7.3
Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jonas McClellan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Parker Stearns
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)
Performance score7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Parker Stearns is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Steven Pladl
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024)
Performance score7.0
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Steven Pladl is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Jonas McClellan
Start here. Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty is the clearest statement of what Matthew MacCaull does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matthew at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder (2019)
Keeps the mystery register of Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty but asks for a colder reading of it.
Midway (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Midway but asks for a colder reading of it.
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024)
Keeps the tv movie register of Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Robison
Director
2 films together
Notably Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty
Allan Harmon
Director
2 films together
Notably Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for Murder
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrowland
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek Beyond
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Midway
Martin Wood
Director
1 film together
Notably Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Elisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together
Notably Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
Austin Andrews
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island Between Tides
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Robison
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on DutyAllan Harmon
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Prescription for MurderMartin Wood
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So DeadlyRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MidwayAustin Andrews
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island Between TidesJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek BeyondElisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl StoryBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TomorrowlandSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Midway
as Staff Officer (Nimitz)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Midway
as Staff Officer (Nimitz)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
as Parker Stearns
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Midway
as Staff Officer (Nimitz)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty
as Jonas McClellan
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Matthew MacCaull has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
TV Movie Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in tv movie, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
as Parker Stearns
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
as Parker Stearns
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Midway
as Staff Officer (Nimitz)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
as Parker Stearns
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Trek Beyond
as Blue Shirt
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Trek Beyond
as Blue Shirt
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Midway
as Staff Officer (Nimitz)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lowlifes
as Keith
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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